Prior to the 2023 Japan Mobility Show, Japanese auto brand Nissan dropped a peek of a sharply-sculpted Hyper Adventure 4×4 digital concept, a large-capacity battery on four wheels designed for “people passionate about outdoor adventures and an eco-friendly lifestyle” and outfitted it with its very own set of retractable steps that leads up to an adventurer’s loveseat for two inside its futuristic confines.

Sideview of an icy blue Nissan Hyper Adventure concept render set in a snowy setting with the Northern Lights glowing in the background with an Arctic body of water just a few feet away.

Nissan’s designers integrated the roof and side windows and the flush surface of the rear end to improve aerodynamics of their sport SUV EV. The pixelated wheels and front and rear bumpers are additionally outfitted with snow gear to improve traction.

Sideview of the sharply paneled icy blue Nissan Hyper Adventure concept render set in a snowy setting with the Northern Lights glowing in the background with an Arctic body of water just a few feet away. Both front doors and gullwing rear doors are open fully, offering a peek inside a deep red illuminated interior with two front seats and one large bucket sofa-shaped rear.

Nissan has been struggling to carve out a greater piece of the automotive pie for several years now, thus it behooves the auto brand to start taking more risks if they have any hopes to reconnect with buyers already tempted by the increasing models defining the EV segment (and if this concept and the Nissan Hyper Tourer, they’re certainly game). And the Hyper Adventure’s aggressively angular and aerodynamic exterior does promote a more tech-forward approach to their next generation of models. Most conspicuous is a side profile expressed by the Hyper Adventure’s nearly 45-degree diagonal door cutouts that appears as much sliced as designed.

Render of the Nissan Hyper Adventure concept's richly red and angular interior cabin, showing the entirety of the SUV's 2 front seats and one large bucket sofa-style seating in the back.

The interior takes advantage of an EV platform’s skateboard-style platform, maximizing cargo space for hauling outdoor gear such as tents, skis, or even a kayak.

In addition to expressing movement even at a standstill, the Hyper Adventure’s exterior accentuates the vehicle’s spacious and very sensuously illuminated cabin within. The instrument panel connects to the bottom of the windshield, serving as a screen with a wide field of view, helping create the perception the body of the vehicle as transparent; the integration of a yoke steering wheel paired with a continuation of aggressive angles across the dash all the way back into the rear bench seat is additionally emphasized by ambient lighting, evoking a Cyberpunk 2077 atmosphere.

Render of the Nissan Hyper Adventure concept's richly red and angular interior cabin, with large overhead spans of windows giving occupants a wraparound view of the sky.

Render of the Nissan Hyper Adventure concept's richly red and angular interior cabin, with yoke steering wheel positioned to the right side and a wraparound dash digital display.

The wildest exploratory feature that we definitely will not be seeing is the Hyper Adventure’s rear bench seat, a modernist loveseat designed to rotate 180 degrees on an axle, giving those tired from aforementioned adventuring a comfortable place to rest when returning from a day’s venture. That is, once they ascend three more steps engineered to automatically extend out and downward.

Man in warm outdoor puffy jacket and snow gear seated in the back of the sharply paneled icy blue Nissan Hyper Adventure concept render set in a snowy setting with the Northern Lights glowing in the background with an Arctic body of water just a few feet away. The back of the vehicle has a set of four retractable steps leaning outward up to a bucket-style sofa seat where the man is seated.

Nissan says the Hyper Adventure Concept is to include a “large-capacity battery,” but being a concept, specifics about its actual capacity is kept nebulous. The concept is envisioned to ease the hardships of adventuring, operating with V2X (vehicle-to-everything) capabilities: powering up outdoor accessories, campsite lights, or even recharging electric jet skis. Back at home, Nissan imagines the SUV adding power back into homes (V2H) or a contributing surplus power back into the grid (V2G).

Side ground level view of an icy blue Nissan Hyper Adventure concept render set in a snowy setting with the Northern Lights glowing in the background.

The Nissan Hyper Adventure concept is certainly not intended for production and will only be displayed at the Japan Mobility Show digitally rather than as a physical show model. But expect to see certain elements of the Hyper Adventure concept make their way into future iterations of the similarly sized Nissan Rogue or maybe even the more upscale Ariya.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, hiking, tide pools, and road trips, a selection of his adventures and musings can be found at gregoryhan.com.

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